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and FilmLight to Showcase Software Grading Control for
Spirit Family at NAB. |
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Vegas April 12, 2008 - Thomson and FilmLight will conduct
a groundbreaking demonstration at NAB in which FilmLight's
Baselight color grading system will control a Thomson
Grass Valley™ Spirit system as a telecine controller.
It will mark the first time ever that a software-based
color corrector will fully control a telecine system. |
The development has broad implications for all post
production workflows that include a color grading component,
but it promises to have a particularly strong impact
on post for high-end commercials.
The demonstration, which will be seen on the Thomson
booth (SL2120), will involve a Baselight HD connected
to a Spirit 4K scanner. The technology incorporated
into version 3.3 of FilmLight's Baselight software can
be employed with any Baselight system and with any model
of the Thomson Grass Valley Spirit product line, including
Spirit HD, Spirit 2K, Spirit 4K, the Shadow telecine
and the classic Spirit DataCine.
"This demonstration is the result of a breakthrough
effort by Thomson and FilmLight and is a moment of great
significance for the post-production industry,"
said Steve Chapman, FilmLight Director. "It marks
the point when software-based color grading has not
only caught up to, but in fact has surpassed, hardware-based
grading. It shows that the future belongs to software
solutions exemplified by Baselight."
The new technology allows Baselight, via its Blackboard
control panel, to emulate a hardware grading system
in a traditional linear workflow, and to perform such
functions as primary and secondary color correction,
grain management, or other film stock dependant settings
- all performed in the Spirit scanner using the Spirit
system's industry-renowned signal processing. It also
gives Baselight the ability to control Spirit for ingest
while operating in a nonlinear environment. Hybrid modes
of operation are also possible.
At NAB, Thomson will also have on the show floor, the
100th new generation Spirit since its introduction in
2004 as the successor for the classic Spirit DataCine.
The co-operation with FilmLight and its Baselight color
corrector is a result of continuing development to ensure
that the Spirit family can cover the whole range of
market requirements to deliver film images to any source
at any time in the fastest way possible.
At NAB, Thomson will show how, in an increasingly convergent
world, it supports the entire media ecosystem. Whether
it's content creation, management, distribution and
delivery, or consumption, our end-to-end solutions meet
the business requirements of our customers-and let them
launch new services to meet the expectations of increasingly
sophisticated consumers and stay competitive in the
marketplace..
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Société
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Auteur
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Thomson
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Susanne
Griffith
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Wh.Oaks
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JPL
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